Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) on Sunday bashed Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) description of net neutrality as “Obamacare for the Internet.”
“He has it completely wrong and he just doesn’t understand what this issue is,” Franken said about Cruz on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“We have had net neutrality the entire history of the Internet. So when he says this is the ObamaCare, ObamaCare was a government program that fixed something, that changed things,” Franken explained. “This is about reclassifying something so it stays the same. This would keep things exactly the same that they’ve been.”
CNN host Candy Crowley also asked Franken about the argument that net neutrality would keep Internet providers from innovating.
“That’s baloney,” the senator responded. “They’ve been doing this all along. They’ve been doing this since the beginning of the the Internet. This isn’t going to stop this. All this stop them from doing is making a whole bunch of extra money. But this is not going to stop them from — from wiring the country.”
Watch the clip via CNN:
Cruz isn’t just wrong, but without net neutrality we might as well shut down the internet and go back to doing things the old way because, at that point, it won’t be worth the hassle.
Thank you, Senator Franken.
By Senator Cruz’s logic, the phone company should have a say in whether I call Pizza Hut vs. Domino’s. Ridiculous!
Where have you been Senator ? I remember when you were on Air America you use to rant and rave about what was wrong with our government now that you have been there for (4) years did you get swallowed up by what you once railed against ?
I’d really like to see Sen Franken make this his cause.
He’s the right guy to continue to be in front of cameras in any venue.
This is just that important.
jw1